United States v. Luis A. Montanez

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• applying the categorical approach and reasoning that “[h]ow a state titles its statutory provisions, however, is not determinative of what actual statute a defendant was convicted under for federal sentencing purposes.”
• “[U]nder the Guidelines, simple possession — that is, possession without the proof beyond a reasonable doubt of the requisite intent to ‘manufacture, import, export, distribute, or dispense’ — is not a controlled substance offense.”
• “[Tjhere are conflicting unpublished dispositions on this issue in our Circuit ....”

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